Suburban school locked down after gun found on student

Matthews Middle School in Island Lake was locked down for several hours this morning after a student was found with a gun. ((WGN-TV))

An Island Lake middle school was locked down for three hours after a student was found with a loaded gun when two other students reported he had the weapon, authorities said.

Matthews Middle School was put on lockdown after school officials confiscated the gun, and the student was taken into custody by Island Lake Police, according to the Wauconda Consolidated Unit School District 118 superintendent.

The student faces charges of unlawful use of weapon, disorderly conduct and reckless conduct, according to police, who are investigating why the boy had the gun, a 25-caliber semiautomatic, where he got it and what, if anything, he planned to do with it.